principal

IPA: prˈɪnsʌpʌɫ

(finance, uncountable) The money originally invested or loaned, on which basis interest and returns are calculated.
(Canada, US, Australia, New Zealand) The chief administrator of a school.
(UK, Canada) The chief executive and chief academic officer of a university or college.
(law) A legal person that authorizes another (the agent) to act on their behalf; or on whose behalf an agent or gestor in a negotiorum gestio acts.
(law) The primary participant in a crime.
Either party in a duel.
(Canada, US) A partner or owner of a business.
(music) A diapason, a type of organ stop on a pipe organ.
(architecture, engineering) The construction that gives shape and strength to a roof, generally a truss of timber or iron; or, loosely, the most important member of a piece of framing.
The first two long feathers of a hawk's wing.
One of the turrets or pinnacles of waxwork and tapers with which the posts and centre of a funeral hearse were formerly crowned
(obsolete) An essential point or rule; a principle.
A dancer at the highest rank within a professional dance company, particularly a ballet company.
(computing) A security principal.

Primary; most important; first level in importance.
(obsolete, Latinism) Of or relating to a prince; princely.
(mathematics) Chosen or assumed among a branch of possible values of a multi-valued function so that the function is single-valued.

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